Don’t buy Apple’s new line of Macbook Pros yet. Consumer Reports doesn’t recommend purchasing the laptops due to inconsistencies in the notebooks’ battery life.

The Yonkers-based consumer magazine tested three MacBook models -- a 13-inch model with Apple’s new Touch Bar, a 13-inch model without the Touch Bar, and a 15-inch model. Consumer Reports does not accept press samples and purchases all of their own products for testing.

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“The MacBook Pro battery life results were highly inconsistent from one trial to the next,” the magazine said Thursday. “For instance, in a series of three consecutive tests, the 13-inch model with the Touch Bar ran for 16 hours in the first trial, 12.75 hours in the second, and just 3.75 hours in the third. The 13-inch model without the Touch Bar worked for 19.5 hours in one trial but only 4.5 hours in the next. And the numbers for the 15-inch laptop ranged from 18.5 down to 8 hours.”

Complaints about the laptops’ unreliable batteries have plagued the MacBook Pro since its launch in October. This year’s MacBook Pros are the first of their kind to not receive recommendations from the consumer ratings publication.

“Battery life is an important attribute for a laptop, and it represents a significant portion of our overall score,” the review said. “After factoring together our complete test results, Consumer Reports finds that all three MacBook Pro laptops fail to meet our standards for recommended models.”